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List of National Cycle Network routes

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List of National Cycle Network routes

This is a list of routes on Sustrans's National Cycle Network within the United Kingdom.

As the cycle network has not been fully completed, some sections of routes are still "missing".

  • Route 1: Dover – Shetland, along the east coast, via London, Edinburgh, John o' Groats and Orkney
  • Route 2: Dover – St Austell, along the south coast, when completed.
  • Route 3: Bristol – Land's End, incorporating the West Country Way via Chew Valley Lake, and the Cornish Way
  • Route 4: London – St Davids, in West Wales, via Reading, Bath, Bristol, Newport, Caerphilly, Pontypridd, Swansea and Llanelli.
  • Route 5: Reading – Holyhead, via Birmingham, The Midlands and the North Wales coast
  • Route 6: Windsor – Lake District, via Luton, Milton Keynes, Northampton and Derby, crossing the Pennine Cycleway
  • Route 7: Carlisle – Inverness via Glasgow, incorporating the Clyde and Loch Lomond Cycleway
  • Route 8: Cardiff – Holyhead, through the heart of Wales. Also known as Lôn Las Cymru
  • Route 9: Belfast – Newry (proposed to run to Dublin)
  • Route 15: (Nottingham – Grantham – Sleaford)
  • Route 16: (Basildon – Shoeburyness)
  • Route 17: Rochester – ( spur to Maidstone) – Ashford (proposed) to Newchurch, Kent joining Route 2
  • Route 18: Canterbury – Ashford – Tenterden – Tunbridge Wells
  • Route 21: Greenwich – Lewisham – Crawley – East Grinstead – Heathfield – Eastbourne
  • Route 22: Banstead – Dorking – Guildford – Farnham – Petersfield – Havant – Portsmouth – (by ferry to Isle of Wight) – Ryde – Yarmouth – (by ferry to New Forest) – Lymington – Brockenhurst
  • Route 50: (Maidenhead – Winslow)
  • Route 51: Colchester – Harwich – Ipswich- Felixstowe – Cambridge – Bedford – Milton Keynes – Oxford
  • Route 52: (Stratford-upon-Avon – Loughborough)
  • Route 53: (Peterborough – Lichfield)
  • Route 54: (Stourport-on-Severn – Kidderminster – Dudley –) Lichfield – Derby
  • Route 55: (Ironbridge – Preston)
  • Route 56: Chester – Liverpool, via Wallasey
  • Route 57: Northleach – Witney (-) Oxford – Thame – Princes Risborough – Chesham (–) Hemel Hempstead – Harpenden (– Welwyn Garden City)
  • Route 61: Maidenhead – Uxbridge – Rickmansworth – Hatfield – Ware Note: Sustrans' own website is wrong and this is the full length of this route.
  • Route 62: the Trans Pennine Trail, Southport – Selby
  • Route 63: Burton upon Trent – Leicester – Oakham (–) Peterborough – Wisbech
  • Route 64: Market Harborough – Melton Mowbray (–) Collingham – Lincoln
  • Route 65: Hull – Middlesbrough; also known as the White Rose cycle route
  • Route 66: Beverley – York (–) Leeds (– Manchester)
  • Route 67: Long Eaton – Heanor (–) Chesterfield – Leeds (–Northallerton)
  • Route 68: the Pennine Cycleway running up the spine of England, Derby – Berwick-upon-Tweed
  • Route 69: (Selby – Skipton)
  • Route 70: Walney 2 Wear
  • Route 71: White Rose route near Northallerton – Workington, via Appleby, Penrith and Whitehaven
  • Route 72: (Kendal – Barrow-in-Furness – Whitehaven –) Silloth – Carlisle – Tynemouth (includes Hadrian's Cycleway)
  • Route 73: (Newton Stewart – Stranraer), Arran, Kintyre
  • Route 74: Gretna – Douglas (– Lesmahagow –) Larkhall – Hamilton – Uddingston
  • Route 75: Gourock – Glasgow – Edinburgh; also known as the Clyde to Forth cycle route
  • Route 76: Berwick-upon-Tweed – Edinburgh – Stirling – Kirkcaldy (- St Andrews) (the Round the Forth Route)
  • Route 77: Dundee – Pitlochry, via Perth
  • Route 78: Campbeltown – Inverness (Great Glens Cycle Route)
  • Route 79: (Boat of Garten – Spey Bay)
  • Route 81: Aberystwyth – Shrewsbury – Telford – Wolverhampton – NCR 5 at Smethwick also known as Lon Cambria
  • Route 82: Bangor – (Capel Curig -) Porthmadog – Dolgellau – Machynlleth (–) Ystrad Meurig – Fishguard
  • Route 84: Rhyl – St Asaph (- Llangollen – Oswestry)
  • Route 85: (Chester – Wrexham -) Trevor – Llangollen (- Corwen – Bala – Dolgellau)
  • Route 88: Caerleon – Newport – Cardiff( – Bridgend)
  • Route 91: Portadown – Tynan; includes a figure-of-eight based around Enniskillen known as the Kingfisher Trail
  • Route 92: Enniskillen – Derry
  • Route 93: Belfast – Derry
  • Route 94: A circuit of Lough Neagh; also known as the Loughshore Trail
  • Route 95: Tynan – Pettigo, via Lough Neagh and Newtownstewart.
  • Route 96: Toome – Portglenone (– Coleraine)
  • Route 122: (Sandy – Gamlingay – Cambridge)
  • Route 123: (Eaton Socon – Cambridge)
  • Route 125: Darent Valley (Dartford) – this follows the route of the long distance path Darent Valley Path)
  • Route 136: Ingrebourne Valley Connect2 scheme
  • Route 137: Stifford Bridge and Purfleet, (following the route of the Mardyke Way (along the Mardyke (river))
  • Route 141: Keelman's Way: Wylam – NCN 14 (along south bank of River Tyne)
  • Route 151: Sleaford branch of NCN15
  • Route 155: Morpeth
  • Route 164: Pocklington - Hutton Cranswick and Kiplingcotes - Beverley. Part of the Yorkshire Wolds Cycle Route and The Way of the Roses route.
  • Route 165: Barnard Castle - Whitby. A branch of the W2W route (previously regional route 52)
  • Route 166: Kirkham Abbey- Hunmanby. Part of the Yorkshire Wolds Cycle Route.
  • Route 167: Kirkham Abbey - Huggate. Part of the Yorkshire Wolds Cycle Route.
  • Route 168: link south-east of Middlesbrough
  • Route 169: Scunthorpe Ridgeway
  • Route 172: Towpath of Royal Military Canal
  • Route 174: Isle of Sheppey – 'Sheerness Way'
  • Route 177: Maidstone – Ashford
  • Route 178: Maidstone – Tonbridge
  • Route 179: Around the Hoo Peninsula (also known as the Heron Trail)
  • Route 195: Aberdeen – Aboyne
  • Route 196: Pencaitland railway path (RR 73) east of Edinburgh
  • Route 207: Devon: South Brent – Dartington
  • Route 208: South London: Raynes Park – Morden
  • Route 212: (Beddington Park, Sutton – South Norwood Country Park, Croydon)
  • Route 221: Basingstoke Canal
  • Route 222: Sussex Downs Link
  • Route 223: Guildford – Chertsey
  • Route 224: Farnham – Medstead
  • Route 231: Isle of Wight
  • Route 232: (Mitcham Common, Merton – Lloyd Park, Croydon)
  • Route 235: Isle of Wight
  • Route 236: Portsmouth – Lyndhurst
  • Route 244: Two Tunnels Greenway, Bath
  • Route 246: Totton – Romsey – Andover – Stockbridge – Kintbury
  • Route 248: Honiton – Sidmouth
  • Route 250: North Dorset Trailway
  • Route 253: South Somerset Cycleway (RR41)
  • Route 254: Wiltshire Cycleway
  • Route 255: Wiltshire Cycleway links, Chippenham area
  • Route 256: Ringwood – Wimborne Minster
  • Route 264: Castle Cary – Keinton Mandeville
  • Route 267: Bridport – Maiden Newton railway path
  • Route 270: Devon Coast-to-Coast alternate braid
  • Route 272: Devon: Ivybridge – Yelverton, also Ashburton and east
  • Route 273: southern NCN3 braid near Holsworthy
  • Route 274: Devon Coast-to-Coast alternate braid
  • Route 275: North Devon coast (former RR)
  • Route 276: North Devon coast (former RR)
  • Route 277: North Devon coast (former RR)
  • Route 278: Devon Coast-to-Coast Woolacombe braid
  • Route 305: Bugle, Cornwall
  • Route 326: NCN3 inland braid to Truro
  • Route 334: south from Bristol
  • Route 338: north from Taunton
  • Route 341: Exeter – Crediton
  • Route 344: NCN3 alternate braid to Bampton
  • Route 403: North Wiltshire NCN4 braid
  • Route 410: Avon Cycleway (Bristol Ring)
  • Route 413: Evesham – Cheltenham NCN45 cut-off
  • Route 416: Bristol – Yate
  • Route 423: Cwmbran – Monmouth – Ross (former RR30 and Peregrine Path)
  • Route 425: Docklands – Camberwell
  • Route 426: Skenfirth – Kentchurch
  • Route 436: Dulais Valley, South Wales
  • Route 437: South Wales to Glanaman
  • Route 438: South Wales to Glanaman
  • Route 439: South Wales to Glanaman
  • Route 440: Milford Haven
  • 442: Cotswold Line Cycle Route: Worcester – Evesham – Oxford
  • 446: Carmarthen – Llandysul
  • 447: Cardiganshire to Newcastle Emlyn
  • 448: Crymych – Cardigan
  • 451: Nantwich – Crewe – Sandbach
  • 455: Oswestry – Ellesmere – Whitchurch (former RR31)
  • 461: Slough / Eton Dorney
  • 465: Pontypool – Hafodyrynys (- Crumlin); (Aberbeeg -) Cwm – Beaufort
  • 466: Valleys
  • 467: Valleys
  • 468: (Trethomas -) Pengam – Abertysswyg (-) Rhymney – Bute Town
  • 469: Bargoed – (Fochriw – Rhymney)
  • 475: Caerphilly – Senghenydd
  • 476: Trelewis – Taff Bargoed
  • 477: Edwardsville – Merthyr Tydfil
  • 478: Abercynon – Llwydcoed
  • 481: Salisbury Plain NCN45 braid
  • 482: Chiseldon – Marlborough NCN45 braid
  • 485: Fosse2 link to Daventry
  • 492: Cwmbran – Brynmawr
  • 523: Kenilworth – Balsall Common – Hampton-in-Arden
  • 524: Nuneaton-Tamworth-Alrewas
  • 525: North Warwickshire Cycleway (W) and Coventry link
  • 526: North Warwickshire Cycleway (E)
  • 533: Birmingham & Fazeley Canal
  • 534: Sutton Coldfield Connect2 – Sutton Park to Castle Vale
  • 535: Birmingham – Sutton Coldfield
  • 536: Banbury – Towcester – Northampton – Thrapston
  • 539: Northampton Norbital
  • 544: Didcot – Wantage (former Regional Route 44)
  • 547: south-east Peak District
  • 548: Hartington – High Peak Trail
  • 549: Etwall – Uttoxeter – Maniford Trail
  • 550: Caldon Canal towpath
  • 552: Newport – Market Drayton (former RR75)
  • 554: Lichfield – Hednesford link
  • 555: Stoke – Kidsgrove via Trent & Mersey Canal towpath
  • 558: South Manchester
  • 559: Caldon Canal Leek Branch – the Roaches
  • 561: Warrington – St Helens – Skelmerdale
  • 562: Runcorn – Widnes – St Helens – Wigan – Southport
  • 566: Anglesey north coast
  • 568: Wirral – Hawarden Bridge – Chester (former Regional Route 89)
  • 573: Congleton – Northwich (former Regional Route 73)
  • 576: Rickmansworth – Chesham – Wendover
  • 577: Witney – Carterton – Cricklade
  • 585: former RR55 Redditch – Birmingham, and canal towpath to city centre
  • 622: Preston Guild Wheel (circular route)
  • 627: Sheffield – Penistone – Kirkburton
  • 633: Worthington – Ashby – Moira
  • 636: Way of the Roses southern braid: Appletreewick – Knaresborough
  • 638: Harrogate – Knaresborough, also known as the Beryl Burton cycleway
  • 646: Carlton-le-Moorland, Lincolnshire
  • 647: Lincoln – Worksop
  • 648: Worksop area
  • 656: Coxwold - near Osmotherly. The High Level Option of the White Rose route.
  • 657: Easingwold - Upsall. Thirsk area loop
  • 658: York northern city route
  • 665: East Leeds – Tadcaster – Wetherby – York
  • 668: north Leeds
  • 672: Derby-Ilkeston greenway
  • 674: Bluebell Way: Thurcroft – Woodsetts, link to Doncaster and Worksop
  • 676: Mansfield
  • 677: north Leeds (Roundhay Park)
  • 680: Monsall Trail
  • 681: Pennine Cycleway moorland route from Hebden Bridge
  • 686: Pennine Cycleway military land route from Bellingham
  • 688: Winterburn - Linton-on-Ouse. Way of the Roses central section
  • 689: Huddersfield – Meltham
  • 696: Airedale Greenway: Leeds and Liverpool Canal towpath Keighley – Shipley
  • 697: Linesway Greenway: Castleford – Garforth
  • 699: Huddersfield Narrow Canal east, and east from Dewsbury
  • 715: Barnard Castle – Bishop Auckland (Walney 2 Wear alternative)
  • 725: Great North Cycleway: Darlington – Newcastle – Blyth
  • 753: West Kilbride – Largs – Gourock
  • 754: Bowling – Clydebank – Kirkintilloch – Falkirk – Linlithgow – Edinburgh (Forth and Clyde Canal & Union Canal)
  • 756: East Kilbride – Rutherglen – Glasgow – Kelvindale (- Bishopbriggs)
  • 764: Clackmannan – Dunfermline
  • 765: Stirling – Bridge of Allan
  • 766: Star of Markinch – Glenrothes – Kirkcaldy
  • 767: Alloa – Tillicoultry – Dollar
  • 768: Tullibody – Alva (- Tillicoultry)
  • 775: Milnathort – Perth – Lochearnhead
  • 776: Newburgh – Auchtermuchty – Falkland
  • 777: Newburgh – Newport-on-Tay
  • 780: Hebridean Way: Vatersay – Barra – Eriskay – Uist – Berneray – Lewis and Harris
  • 810: Liverpool – Ainsdale (former Regional Route 81) (out-of-zone number)
  • 811: Valleys – Porth-Pontypridd (Rhondda Fach)
  • 818: Llangurig NCN81 high level braid
  • 819: Rhayader-Strata Florida southern braid
  • 820: Llanwrtyd Wells – Strata Florida/NCN81
  • 822: Aberaeron – Lampeter
  • 825: Radnor Ring
  • 862: Gellings Greenway: Kirkby – Knowsley (Liverpool)
  • 881: Valleys (Rhondda Valley / Pontypridd – Maerdy)
  • 882: Valleys (Rhondda Valley / Treorchy)
  • 883: Valleys (Ogmore Valley)
  • 884: Valleys (Garw Valley)
  • References

    List of National Cycle Network routes Wikipedia